A few disquieting signals in recent months, suggest that Russia is returning to a cold war posture.On May 9 this year, tanks will roll through Red Square once again. Six thousand soldiers will march in a show of power, supported by Sukhoi 27 and Mig 29 fighters, missile launchers and other displays of aggression that leave little to the imagination regarding Russia’s strategic intents.
In recent months, Russian bombers have overflown a US aircraft carrier, other aircraft have tested missiles in the Bay of Biscay, the navy has undertaken extensive maritime exercises, Vladimir Putin has effectively contrived to hold onto power an dbrown shirted youth brigades (Nashis) have sweleld to 120,000. The press is being reigned in as Russia switches to a new concept of cold war politics, namely “Sovereign Democracy”, which means the government is democratically sovereign and will not bow to world opinion, verification or local censure.
The Russian military is anything but a spent force, but with billions of new Rubles rolling into the economy off all-time high oil prices and a good few years of significant economic growth, Russia has the resources to reacquire global strategic prominence.
Russia is also flirting with Iran, the one nation that poses the greatest threat to Iraqi and middle-east peace. Peace in that region is a scare and fragile commodity, held together by duct tape and patches. It holds because of finely-tuned power balances, thanks significantly to decades of US intervention that has managed to stabilize an otherwise very dangerous theatre. Had the US not propped up the Shah of Iran back in the day, Soviet expansionism into Afghanistan would have continued unchecked into the rest of the Middle East via an unprotected Iran, a situation that would have bolstered their global influence, by annexing control of strategic oil reserves.
But this time round, Putin seems set on avoiding past errors and the embarrassment of Russia’s forced withdrawal from Afghanistan. They have been currying favor with Iran, supplying nuclear technology and backing the Iranian leadership via the UN.
This has brought Iran to the very brink of nuclear leadership within the Middle East. Once they accumulate enough enriched fuel from their complex and fickle centrifugal processes, it would take months to assemble the relatively achievable hardware needed to weaponise their nuclear stockpile. The highly respected IAEA has signaled a clear warning to the world regarding the imminence of Iran’s aggressive ambitions, echoed by Israeli intelligence reports that suggest that it is almost too late to act.
Clearly there are very dangerous things happening in the most troubled regions at the centre of the earth, but these are just curtain raisers for the great convergence of world powers that is predicted by the bible. Armageddon is not far away and other world crises are fanning the flames that will result in the greatest conflagration in history, including: global economic uncertainty, US elections, the rise of Europe, UN realignment as the vanguard of the new world order, rising levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and a decline in value of the world’s reserve currency, the Dollar.
Is this not a time to settle outstanding accounts and set your house in order? God is a fearsome judge, but He is almost shouting His warnings to an otherwise nonchalant world community. We have brought the global climate to a critical level, serious pandemics are waiting in the wings and world-class conflicts are simmering at centre stage. Is it not time to take the warnings of the bible seriously and to act, in the words of Israeli intelligence, before it is too late.
(c) Peter Eleazar at http://www.bethelstone.com/
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